over more and more to purely fortuitous effects. His design, in particular, suffers, and the reason I bring up all this in connection with Mr. Austin is that his drawings now on view reveal a sensi- tivity to line and a feeling for design that his present oil-painting technique pretty generally obscures. To be sure, certain derivations, until now equally unsuspected, also appear in the draw- ings. There is more than a trace of the Picasso of the classic period in a num- ber of the nudes, and a still stronger and rather disquieting suggestion of Pascin in his general treatment of line. In such pieces as his "Young Woman with Apple" and "Woman Arranging Her Hair," however, he shows a crispness and a directness that are wholly remark- able. If he can only transfer those qual- ities to his painting, now, he'll really be- gin getting somewhere. B y contrast, the weakness of George Picken's painting so far, it seems to me, is that he has failed to take full ad van tage of his technical equipment. Both in the water colors he has on ex- hibition and in his oils, one finds evidence of every important endowment, from good drawing and sound design to a sure instinct for economy of treatment. (Note, for instance, how subtly the autumnal mood is con veyed in his "Berkshire Waterfall" and how, almost casually, the tangle of street traffic is suggested in "After the Rain-South Street." ) Yet in spite of all this, there's a certain drabness about his work that is dispiriting, and the reason behind it, I think, is that he just doesn't venture enough. Having solved the problems of the dark palette, he seems content to stay always inside that tonality; having developed a gift for economy of treat- men t, he carries the thing to the point where he makes even an essentially dramatic subject, as in his "Building the Sh ." " w d C " b lp or 00 en fane, seem su - du d and indeterminate. To my mind, he's one man who, instead of needing more caution, needs less of it, and per- haps for that reason it was the pieces which revealed some tendency toward boldness and unorthodoxy-"Water- front Dernck," say, and the bright, oddly patterned "Dunes"-that I liked best in the present show. -ROBERT M. COATES . NEATEST TRICK OF THE WEEK (HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS ARENA) [A dv. in the New Britain Herald] CRAWFORD COMBINATION stove and bed couch. Call 3596- J. 49 '1 ð .j f':;',>> ... iL' I k a, r --'.'j D'ORSAY;! . }{ ti w IB -.J 10 fi:i;,,< g: f;. :.:.., > .;-. .. :; f, ' ,} {"j i\, , Hj\l' '.F. f ,.. i.{} ; I.. . ".... <" -.'-.;.-. ;: of >:. ;v:: ' :.:" 0","'1.'\::;:;.-/> CREATORS OF PERFUMES THAT WHISPER "SOMEONE LOVELY HAS JUST PASSED BY"